You are 100% true. As a neovim user I spend almost half or the entire day just configuring it for rust and c++ because I use Mason and watch a random tutorial at the same time
My hatred and distrust for Microsoft has kept me from even trusting that. Had a bit of a. Crisis after they discontinued atom and tried neovim for a while. Thank God for the pulsar team and their fork of atom
@@bigboxSWE let me give you a better name on that reference: Directory ship. Cause you're the literal Directory of knowledge who ships for us broke ass devs. Thanks for your content as always!
Can't believe you brought up visual studio and didn't mention us C++ devs. We hate our language, but we will defend it to the death if anyone talks smack about it
@@Anton_Sh. cowards run to the comfort of zig and rust. The warriors fight in the trenches of legacy c++ code with terrible memory leak and bases that switch between using and not using namespace std
I use arch on a 2013 thinkpad edge, neovim in tmux, I code in Rust and listen to the joe rogan experience. I also haven’t showered for two days. What the actual hell
@@aeronjarrett6753diatro doesn't matter as much, desktop environment does if your system is somewhat performant it might run regular xfce, if not, there are plenty window managers like dwm, openbox, etc. that can work with a tiny amount of cpu power
@@sampjm1898 I suppose it's either just personal preferences, or for practical purpose : you want to read your code without having the files and the mess at your left when your eyes start to read another line of code ; you'd be inclined to be distracted. All suppositions, idk for real.
Notepad++ brings back memories. It was and still is for the occasional script a very good choice. Especially if you need something lightweight and portable. And it is still maintained.
@@lionelemilio4141 I talked about the pretender part. A junior dev gets shit actually done. The one just wants to life the style of it and act like a SWE
40-year-old Java and C# devs trying not to use a bloated, outdated IDE on Windows with a pure #FFFFFF theme on everything except the text (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE)
I use micro btw. Most sane cli text editor. I even switched to writing python apps in it, so I don’t have to wait for pycharm to load and bombard me with new features.
I don't use VI, or derivatives of it, I never understood why it was so complex, I use NANO for editing small files and Ed when I need something more powerful, I recently discovered OpenBSD has an editor called MG, which is "Micro-Emacs" apparently, its cool, its emacs without the bloat.
There is programming before and after JetBrains. I've tried different IDE's and editors and JetBrains IDE's are unmatched. It just reduces the cognitive load tremendously. It's super easy to navigate even large projects and the visual debugger is a pleasure to work with. If you want you can get the Vim shortcuts, but I don't use it anymore because the shortcuts aren't "cross application". I like the system shortcuts as they are the same in whatever application I use. One ring to rule them all. A good visual debugger is a must btw.
Pretty damn accurate, from a VSCode using Gen-Xer who just gets shit done, default theme, file tree on the left but usually open to Git, gave up on trying Neovim, in bed by 2, unhealthy weed and espresso addiction, still owned an IBM Type M until switching to a Keycron during the pandemic. My Mom has a crawlspace, not a basement, so will have to settle for the garage.
@@nomen385 no it's the worst text editor.. it's hard to edit things written with a pen.. even pencil writings are hard to edit written with pressure...
Pretty funny that I started using Emacs in 2016 as a 19 year old. That editor was double my age. Still admire it with all its quirks to this day. Preeeettty steep learning curve tho, I admit
personally i've been using a hex editor for while, but recently i noticed "what's the point of writing code if i can use the same editor to write binary directly", now i write jvm bytecode
i use intellij for java and i won't do it any other way. i am gonna die eventually and i'd rather not waste my time with structural java quirks. i use neovim for other things because it works nice with linux setup. i can use vscode comfortably too. it's nice all around. for me, it doesn't make a lot of difference. i can enjoy all of them when i figure out what i want and they all provide it with various difficulties.
I use CLion for C and it's a great IDE albeit very bloated. It saves me lots of time, and I get it for free so I don't have any reason to use another tool
@@SzymonSaysStuffbecause their faces are usually placed on the right side, so they don't overlay the code. Also editor doesn't do any UI shift when opening/closing sidebar In my honest opinion tho - sidebar on the left is still better because you don't have to stare at the edge of the screen all the time which is super non-ergonomic
@@SzymonSaysStuff It makes the screen feel significantly less cluttered. I'm guessing it's because our brains are wired to read left-to-right, so we always try to subconsciously "parse" the sidebar before reading the contents of our main pane.
Almost scary how accurate this is. I'm typing this on an Ergodox that I built my self connected to my Artix (Arch without systemd) laptop (though it's a Dell Latitude E6450 since good old thinkpads are just getting too expensive these days. I do own several thinkpads, though).
As a Neovim user I can confirm that I didn't even watch the video because I'm still configuring Neovim
lmao dude, you made my day, this is so relatable xdd
That's because youre stuck using that garbage they call Lua! Now if only someone made a flavor of Vim using Elisp...
You only need a decent colorscheme, treesitter, lsp, telescope and maybe a file tree.
You are 100% true. As a neovim user I spend almost half or the entire day just configuring it for rust and c++ because I use Mason and watch a random tutorial at the same time
@@CaptTerrific Both languages are pure garbage
"Nano because you're scared of vim" lmao
Its true tho
Honestly though... Yeah, I gotta admit XD
Relatable
So true !!! :D
CTRL S, CTRL X easy
VS Codium: When you hate Microsoft so much but you also needed VS Code
My hatred and distrust for Microsoft has kept me from even trusting that. Had a bit of a. Crisis after they discontinued atom and tried neovim for a while.
Thank God for the pulsar team and their fork of atom
I used to love Atom. Tried Pulsar the other days, tons of errors when instaling dependencies.
@@major505 really? I have yet to have a problem. I do solidity and Javascript work mostly on Linux. What languages and OS are you using.
when u think ur a Linux nerd but u don't even know how to exit vim
No one needs VsCode, we just use it for lazyness
As a typical fireship viewer I can confirm I'm definitely "suprised" to see bigbox boarding the "text editor personality" train.
i remember someone calling me direship and that lives in my head rent free
@@bigboxSWE let me give you a better name on that reference: Directory ship. Cause you're the literal Directory of knowledge who ships for us broke ass devs. Thanks for your content as always!
Can't believe you brought up visual studio and didn't mention us C++ devs. We hate our language, but we will defend it to the death if anyone talks smack about it
Are you saying rust/zig you're gonna not adapt?
@@Anton_Sh. cowards run to the comfort of zig and rust. The warriors fight in the trenches of legacy c++ code with terrible memory leak and bases that switch between using and not using namespace std
FR
he forgot borland/turbo ide in honorable mentions
FR man, C++ always been that toxic girlfriend, whom I can't leave
senior level jetbrains user, never wrote a unit test in my life ☺️
I'm a junior jetbrains user, seems like it's tempting to follow your path.
And let me guess... stuck on a java 8 project ? Yeah I know that too
@@lufenmartofilia5804 lmao for me, it was Java 7 and recently upgraded to 8 kekw
senior here. also jetbrains
Never worked in company level JetBrains user, im coding some stuff after reversing in ida. Never wrote a unit test in my life
I use arch on a 2013 thinkpad edge, neovim in tmux, I code in Rust and listen to the joe rogan experience. I also haven’t showered for two days. What the actual hell
Exactly me. And he also nailed that I prefer manga over Anime 😭
Bro only needs to add blue hair for the perfect rustacean
I've been wondering what Linux would run on the thinkpad... though I think mine is much older than 2013 :(
Should be C rather than Rust but decent enough otherwise
Also do you use a tiling window manager?
@@aeronjarrett6753diatro doesn't matter as much, desktop environment does
if your system is somewhat performant it might run regular xfce, if not, there are plenty window managers like dwm, openbox, etc. that can work with a tiny amount of cpu power
All I took away from this was to move my vscode tabs to the right side and my day feels spiced up already ty. Back to the coffee shop 🤓
Same!
All that’s left is to quit coding to be a tech CZcamsr and sell false hopes and dreams through boot camps after holding one junior dev job!
gonna try this right this instant ... or not idk
I don't get this?can anybody explain to me why you want to shift your tab to the right?
@@sampjm1898 I suppose it's either just personal preferences, or for practical purpose : you want to read your code without having the files and the mess at your left when your eyes start to read another line of code ; you'd be inclined to be distracted. All suppositions, idk for real.
Best IDE: Sticky Notes 📝
Lol
Notepad++ has entered the chat
@@christopherdixon4472 notepad++ has usable features... notepad is a better ide..
Sticky notes… more like Notepad - -
Let Paper and pen bless you
As an Emacs user, i can confirm it is indeed past my bedtime
Yeah it's way too late.
😂😂 My daily dose of toxicity & self-imposed cyber bullyuing. The supreme motivational speaker🤣
indeed 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a simple man. I see bigbox notification, I click.
True
true
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I am that simple man too
Guess im a simple man too
Damn, I read the manga.. guess I have to learn vim. Best video I've seen in my life.
what are u doing NOT using vim bro, you're so close to transition into Algo Chad final form
I can't believe the good old windows notepad wasn't mentioned
On that note I can’t believe the even better Microsoft Word wasn’t included.
@@CoClockOn that note, I can't believe the good old ms paint wasn't mentioned.
well, there is beauty in the simplicity of coding in notepad.
Or Notepad++
notepad++ users are the true gigachads because they use their text editor like a text editor
The humor is straight up on point for this one.
Just want to say thanks bigbox for your vids.
I got sick of all the choices that I created my own Editor. Best thing I've ever done.
Now there are X+1 choices
Haha. That's how these things are born.@@futuza
Let me use it too
"navigation on the right side of the screen", thanks for the recognition bigbox 🔥
I feel personally attacked
I know. SciTE wasn't even mentioned.
@@desertdude540 even windows builtin notepad wasnt mentioned
Writing garbage code without tests really pegged me.
That's pretty gay, ngl
Bro did Vim users dirtyy , he didn't even mention it 💀
ikr. the neovim crowd came in and started calling their editor vim when it's really just vim with a roblox language and weird community
@@harleyspeedthrust4013 roblox language > esoteric language
@@zekrinealfa1113 which language?
@@ncpeaksean4278i suppose lua because "roblox language"
@@harleyspeedthrust4013nah don't hate on lua. you just haven't tried it
This is about to go so viral. I’m both jealous and fearful of your comments for the next few weeks
Why is this comment so deeply buried
the anarchy has already begun
big box probably read my comment let's gooo
haha im only a bigbox in size not fame, i see most comments :) @@CoolestPossibleName
@@bigboxSWE you are a big youtuber to me
I laugh in the entire video 😂 man this was awesome
Absolute genius!!! This channel deserves x10 the subscribers :D
As a Notepad++ user, I agree mostly young people use this text editor. I use both VSCode for Windows and Notepad++.
Young people? I just turned 38.
@@ChristopherAndersonPirate did you watch the video?
Notepad++ brings back memories.
It was and still is for the occasional script a very good choice.
Especially if you need something lightweight and portable.
And it is still maintained.
bro came out swinging today
this is a banger
the accuracy of this video is beyond anything.
Man, the Visual Studio stuff with C# is so true and real. I can see all of it every single day at work
Here I am coding on vscode and watching this video then BOOM "PUT YOUR PRIMARY BAR ON THE RIGHT SIDE"....I never thought to do this. Thank you
The sudden plainrock jumpscare caught of me off-guard KSJSJSJ
I know it is a joke, but come on... we all think the VSC archetype that pretends is 100% real
@@lionelemilio4141 I talked about the pretender part. A junior dev gets shit actually done. The one just wants to life the style of it and act like a SWE
Ah my bad then. sorry man.@@lionelemilio4141
VSC is great for little one file projects
3:45 why is this so accurate 😭😭 and defending C# part lol you're spot on.
literally me omg. Does anyone else?
40-year-old Java and C# devs trying not to use a bloated, outdated IDE on Windows with a pure #FFFFFF theme on everything except the text (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE)
That was incredible XD
Damn, you got me at "File explore on the right side". Yes, I hate my editor position change when you have long and large folder structure on the left
man i feel attacked about the dracula theme
lol same. I use both firacode and the dracula theme
@@principle6261 its just a good theme i use it in like every editor LOL
no love for the greatest text editor, ed
I’ve tried many different editors and while trying each one I was at a stage of life that you called out 😂
My Editor is helix: For people who like the drawbacks of neovim without any of the ecosystem, just because it's written in rust ^^
🦀
Helix is for wannabe hipsters like Neovim is but at least Helix users shower.
Rust is for cowards
Write in C
Chads just use: Wordpad 🗿
Too bad it's gone now
But windows builtin notepad is better
Nano is superior
While gigachads use ed in the tty, and they only start an X instance if they need to test their graphical program
This was a truly innovative video...
is what I would've said if Dreamweaver was in it
I've spent a couple years configuring Neovim but I still don't have even a single fully completed project
As a Microsoft Flavoured Java user myself, I can agree that I will defend this toolchain with everything I got to the grave.
Helix not being mentioned is oddly fitting
i like how nvim got such a long segment. almost as long as the time it takes us to cd into the right rep
You nailed the Jetbrains user. It's exactly me.
everything you said about Neovim user is me. just at point.
and what about your personal hygiene bro? :D
As a vscode user i dont even care about editors just wanna make the software i need and im interested in, gave up on this industry anyway
i actually moved the file explorer to the right because of this video, i better not regret this.
Glad I found this channel 😂
I use micro btw. Most sane cli text editor. I even switched to writing python apps in it, so I don’t have to wait for pycharm to load and bombard me with new features.
Helix: you're too much of a hipster, not even Neovim cuts it for you
But what about the classic vim user, that only uses vim because they get sensory overload when opening vs code or 2 tabs at once? 😢
I feel personally attacked. Like, for real. You got so many things right. 😭
I don't use VI, or derivatives of it, I never understood why it was so complex, I use NANO for editing small files and Ed when I need something more powerful, I recently discovered OpenBSD has an editor called MG, which is "Micro-Emacs" apparently, its cool, its emacs without the bloat.
Oh wow, an ed user out in the wild, that's a rare sight to see
phew, luckily he didn't mention online editor websites.
There is programming before and after JetBrains. I've tried different IDE's and editors and JetBrains IDE's are unmatched. It just reduces the cognitive load tremendously. It's super easy to navigate even large projects and the visual debugger is a pleasure to work with. If you want you can get the Vim shortcuts, but I don't use it anymore because the shortcuts aren't "cross application". I like the system shortcuts as they are the same in whatever application I use. One ring to rule them all. A good visual debugger is a must btw.
you’re shockingly accurate at the ‘Microsoft stack’ guys
You know it's a bad place to go when interviewer is using JetBrains
eh why ?
As a Neovim +i3 + NixOS user, I can confirm that I still configuring everything
New user: "When do we get to the ride?" (using the software they're configuring)
NixOS: "This [configuring] _is_ the ride!"
@@angeldude101 exactly! I enjoy every bit of learning how to configure NixOS to my liking. Which feel a lot more fun than playing video games
I was not expecting an Idaho reference; but that one was perfectly on point
Pretty damn accurate, from a VSCode using Gen-Xer who just gets shit done, default theme, file tree on the left but usually open to Git, gave up on trying Neovim, in bed by 2, unhealthy weed and espresso addiction, still owned an IBM Type M until switching to a Keycron during the pandemic. My Mom has a crawlspace, not a basement, so will have to settle for the garage.
I know nothing about coding, but I appreciate this video.
Waiting for roast of Kakoune and Helix :v
preach!
One of the few people who use Micro (I'm hella lazy and enjoy the simplicity of it)
Me, too when I'm on ubuntu. On windows it tuns so slow. So I use Notepad++
I just heard "Brazil"??? Great vídeo lol
You missed the Gigachads: Notepad.
Everyone knows that the windows notepad is the best text editor
rookie. MSpaint is the best we all know that
Noobs. It's paper.
@@nomen385 nuh uh, clay tablets are even better if you think about it
Arthur Whitney would certainly agree with you.
@@nomen385 no it's the worst text editor.. it's hard to edit things written with a pen.. even pencil writings are hard to edit written with pressure...
As a Visual Studio user I say you were spot on. Take a subscribe.
Pretty funny that I started using Emacs in 2016 as a 19 year old. That editor was double my age. Still admire it with all its quirks to this day. Preeeettty steep learning curve tho, I admit
John Carmack uses visual studio
Bro you’re hilarious ☠️☠️☠️
Actually the best video yet 🦾
the nvim part got me.. i thought i was unique
As an emacs user, at 34 years old, I can confirm that I am the youngest emacs user I know.
As a JetBrains IDE user... Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with XDDDD
Vi for the win!
personally i've been using a hex editor for while, but recently i noticed "what's the point of writing code if i can use the same editor to write binary directly", now i write jvm bytecode
What a nigma
i use intellij for java and i won't do it any other way. i am gonna die eventually and i'd rather not waste my time with structural java quirks.
i use neovim for other things because it works nice with linux setup.
i can use vscode comfortably too. it's nice all around.
for me, it doesn't make a lot of difference. i can enjoy all of them when i figure out what i want and they all provide it with various difficulties.
The best editor for java is to not use java
I use CLion for C and it's a great IDE albeit very bloated. It saves me lots of time, and I get it for free so I don't have any reason to use another tool
Where Helix???
the 5 helix users are not eating tonight
Great video
This guy make me realize there are other individual who likes and experience the exact same junks like me
Helix not mentioned 😢
helix my beloved
Next time you should talk about helix :)
As a nano user for smaller scripts and VScode for actual projects, it was on point.
real programmers code on rocks.. No typo, no bug.. You right each line, you gotta be DAMN sure it works just as intended
I use Helix because I'd rather not fight the stupidly long config process of Neovim.
My left hand hurts for slapping my knee when laughing at this
I hope your right hand isn't tired
the jetbrains one is so on point haahh
laughed so hard at the pull request
I can’t believe you forgot about all 38 Helix users.
1:17 The tip to change the sidebar to the right is genuinely super helpful, thanks!
why? I noticed many CZcamsrs use it like that, but I don't know why
@@SzymonSaysStuffbecause their faces are usually placed on the right side, so they don't overlay the code. Also editor doesn't do any UI shift when opening/closing sidebar
In my honest opinion tho - sidebar on the left is still better because you don't have to stare at the edge of the screen all the time which is super non-ergonomic
@@SzymonSaysStuff It makes the screen feel significantly less cluttered. I'm guessing it's because our brains are wired to read left-to-right, so we always try to subconsciously "parse" the sidebar before reading the contents of our main pane.
Almost scary how accurate this is. I'm typing this on an Ergodox that I built my self connected to my Artix (Arch without systemd) laptop (though it's a Dell Latitude E6450 since good old thinkpads are just getting too expensive these days. I do own several thinkpads, though).
yk i was learning neovim but after hearing your description of the average neovim user i'm reconsidering
where’s helix? 😢😢
What’s that? 😂
(Brazilian indie dev who uses VS almost exlusively for c#)
Never in my life have I felt so attacked.
I use it for CPP, but I use VS Code for everything else.
As a notepad user i can confirm that it's better than every other editor.
I mean...
It's defaulted to whitemode.
Why this is so accurate 😁 thocky keep, stickers on a mac
long videos from bigbox is moooooooooodddddd